When coming up with ideas, students need to consider some essential questions:What are some cool ideas people will want to know more about?
Who is the target audience?
How long does the project need to be? (Note: Bydoing small projects of less than 10 minutes long, you can produce more in a short period of time. Also, it’s better to create movies that make people think and have more questions than answers about the subject being discussed.)
What are your initial goals?
Is it clichéd? Have others done it? Is it anything new?
How do you plan to shoot it?
Who would be great to interview?
Where would it be ideal to shoot?
Do you need to get any permissions before or during the shoot?
What equipment do you think you will need?
What are your other needs: music, other media assets (pictures, additional • footage, graphics)?
When coming up with ideas, students need to consider some essential questions:What are some cool ideas people will want to know more about?